Three years after the death of its eponymous founder, the Smuin Ballet has received wide local notice for the new elements in its repertory,
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A report in The Bay Citizen said that a series of at least four killings put law enforcement’s focus on the north Oakland group.
In Oakland, opponents argue that an injunction would do little to curb crime and much to prompt racial profiling. In other Bay Area cities, like Fairfield, civil liberties groups have attacked such injunctions as violations It would also keep suspected gang members from associating with one another in a 100-block swath of the city and imposeĪ curfew from 10 p.m.
Of activities, including weapons possession, trespassing and witness intimidation. It would restrain 15 named individuals from a variety Judge Weighs Gang Injunction | The latest effort by regional law enforcement authorities to use the court system to control gang violence will be under the microscope in Alameda County Superior Court, where officials will press for an injunction to control Oakland’s North Side gang. Passage of the ballot measure could lead to an expansion of the work force and the union’s rolls. Tender.” The union’s move is “a major step - some are saying it’s a game-changer,” said Jeff Jones, the executive director for the Patient ID Center in Oakland, Use by adults.” But since some of the jobs have no equivalent in other fields, the 26,000-member United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 is considering new job classifications, like “bud Move, he wrote, could “help efforts to legalize marijuana and open the door for the union to organize thousands more workers if state voters pass a measure in November to allow recreational marijuana Organized by a San Jose-based food workers union, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Is the Marijuana Industry a Fertile Field for Unions? | In what appears to be the first union foray into the marijuana business, about 100 workers at medical cannabis dispensaries are being Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Los Angeles Times reported that they are sounding more like him. And while the two Republican candidates have been trying to distance themselves from Gov. Poizner spent $252,000 a day and the leading Democratic candidate, Attorney From mid-March to mid-May, according to newly released records, Ms. Outspent her Republican primary opponent, Steve Poizner, $42 million to $17.9 million on television advertising. She has said she’s prepared to spend as much as $150 million and has already Price Tag Soars for Gubernatorial Campaigns | Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, has spent about $68 million of her own money in her campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, including $33.8 million in the past two months. It has spectacular landscapes (see Geneva, above.) It is prone to earthquakes (see Port au Prince.) It is a coastal town with The city obliges, since the facts of its life resonate at so many levels. San Francisco of the Caribbean.” Or “ Brighton is the San Francisco of England.”Īs demonstrated by the pages and pages of links that appear with a Google search of the phrase “is the San Francisco of,” the good booster of Skagway was not the last to look to this city for metaphoric As in “ Geneva is the San Francisco of Switzerland.” Or “ Port au Prince is the
It could not have been the first time that the name San Francisco has been the touchstone, the benchmark, the defining frame for someplace else. The future of Skaguay is assured: she is the San Francisco of Alaska - the Key City of the great golden Northwest and will be the capital and the metropolis of the coming North Star State. In 1898, in a book called “Skaguay, The Gateway to the Klondike,” promoting the golden promise of Alaska, a civic booster wrote: Above, the city and Marin County, as seen from the Airship Ventures zeppelin. Josh Haner/The New York Times San Francisco looms large in the imagination of outsiders, who use it as a touchstone to define other places.
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